It’s the thickest hair type, and is unique to people with
black/African blood in them. it’s a very common hair type for black women.

Type four hair is broken down into three sections

4a, 4b, 4c, with 4a being the loosest of the thickest and 4c
being the thickest of the thickest.

Type 4a hair:

Type 4b hair:

Type 4c hair (my hair type)

Someone with type 4 hair may have all type 4 hair textures
in their hair (4 a-c), but it’s more common for someone to have both 4b and 4c
hair since those are similar.

Type 4a is loose yet thick at the same time but has a
definite curl pattern. It’s very curly.

Type 4b hair is kinky and not nearly as loose. Like type 4c
hair it can stand like an afro but more than often it has a kinky curly
pattern.

Type 4c hair is the thickest and unlike the others does not
have a curl pattern. It is very kinky coily and literally defies gravity. It almost
always stands up in an afro state, and even if it is long, it still stands up unless it
is stretched. 4c hair has the most shrinkage, meaning that you can have back
length hair, but if it is wet is shrinks up like a sponge to a smaller, afro
like state.

It is what people refer to as nappy hair and what not.

Type 4 hair (especially 4c) is the most discriminated and made fun of in
both the natural hair community and outside of the community which is why so
many black women fear going natural because they don’t wanna have type 4 hair.

But honestly, type 4 hair is amazing and it’s sad society
has made us think it’s awful. I have 4 hair and I love it.

What bothers me the most about racism is the fact that there’s no valid reason for black people to be hated. If we had oppressed other races and did evil things to them then I would understand but history wise as far as I’m concerned we NEVER have. We have always been the victim. We purely have just existed, we are the original race every race has came from us. The hate we receive from whites, Asians, Hispanics/latinos, arabs basically non-black people just doesn’t make sense. What have we actually done to anyone except for exist? But don’t get me wrong I’m not looking for validation or expecting love from non blacks. I’m just stating facts. Black people since the beginning of time being the first people on this planet have just existed. Anyways I love black people from around the world( Afro diaspora). I love our history our identity our creations I will always be proud to be black and defend and represent my people. Being black is a blessing.